alaska1986
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Hello all. I am a fairly inexperienced engineer (although I somehow have enough to sit for the exam) working for the utility (line design section). Due to my inexperience and somewhat intimidation brought on by the PE exam. I am beginning to gather study material to familiarize myself with well in preparation for the April 2013 PE exam, I know I will need a lot of time to digest this information so I prefer overstudying.
I know this has been asked a thousand time but I want to make sure I have material that is actually useful to me that I can understand (hopefully not like a higher level grad school book) as someone who is preparing to study very early on and later will have a more structured schedule as the date approaches.
I want to make sure that I have books that at least cover all the Exam Specification areas that NCEES publishes (I'm not sure I've accomplished that with the list below)
From browsing this site, others and amazon reviews I have compiled the following list of study material:
Current NEC & NESC editions
NCEES Power Sample Questions/Solutions
Power Reference Manual by Camara (I've heard transmission systems & the NEC arent covered well in this book)
Power Sample Test Book by PPI
Power Practice Problems by PPI
Power System Analysis - John Grainer/Stevenson
Electrical Machines, Power System & Drives by Wildi
IESNA Illumination Handbook
Handbook of Elec Power Calcs by H. Wayne Beaty (is this the best handbook)
Is this enough study material for someone with my little experience? Also is it possible for someone to give an emphasis of topics to study in the NEC book, I know its very important.
I've heard plenty of other material referenced such as:
Protective Relaying by Blackburn, Chelapati Electrical Power, Electric Machinery & Power Systems by Chapman, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Bobrow) and others on Variable Speed Drives.
My next question will be who has this material for sale Thanks a million
I know this has been asked a thousand time but I want to make sure I have material that is actually useful to me that I can understand (hopefully not like a higher level grad school book) as someone who is preparing to study very early on and later will have a more structured schedule as the date approaches.
I want to make sure that I have books that at least cover all the Exam Specification areas that NCEES publishes (I'm not sure I've accomplished that with the list below)
From browsing this site, others and amazon reviews I have compiled the following list of study material:
Current NEC & NESC editions
NCEES Power Sample Questions/Solutions
Power Reference Manual by Camara (I've heard transmission systems & the NEC arent covered well in this book)
Power Sample Test Book by PPI
Power Practice Problems by PPI
Power System Analysis - John Grainer/Stevenson
Electrical Machines, Power System & Drives by Wildi
IESNA Illumination Handbook
Handbook of Elec Power Calcs by H. Wayne Beaty (is this the best handbook)
Is this enough study material for someone with my little experience? Also is it possible for someone to give an emphasis of topics to study in the NEC book, I know its very important.
I've heard plenty of other material referenced such as:
Protective Relaying by Blackburn, Chelapati Electrical Power, Electric Machinery & Power Systems by Chapman, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering (Bobrow) and others on Variable Speed Drives.
My next question will be who has this material for sale Thanks a million